Monster Prom is a quirky competitive dating sim with party games

The high school in Monster Prom exists in a colorful alternate dimension filled with coquettish Medusas and demon jocks — and you (and up to three friends) must date one of them. Spanish indie studio Beautiful Glitch’s debut game is a competitive dating simulator with a few party games thrown in. With the help of Romanian publisher Those Awesome Guys, it launches on April 27 for PC.

Monster Prom supports up to four players, and I played a two-person match with Those Awesome Guys during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. We played hot-seat style, sharing the keyboard and taking turns making decisions. After we selected our characters, we each had to take a quick personality quiz with questions like “Who’s the coolest mythological creature?” These questions change each time you play — the developers wrote quite a few, and they’re selected randomly — and they determine your starting stats like how bold, charming, and intelligent you are.